When I attended the UW (72-75) the fill was just that. A flat land that vented lots and lots of methane. Did get my lifer Eurasian Wigeon there, though.
Hal Michael

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> On 11/25/2020 10:52 AM David Parent <dpdvm at whidbey.com> wrote:

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> Nice article about Husky Stadium and the Montlake Dump.

> When I attended UW in the early 80's the fill looked kinda like that aerial photo. Great habitat even then but nothing like today. I remember one of the ponds filled with 47 Red-necked Phalaropes.

> I also remember going to that dump with my father in the 50's. How many rare gulls did I see? Oh, and by the way, the dump folks encouraged us to bring BB guns to shoot rats, which were astoundingly abundant!

>

> Dave Parent Freeland WA.

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> https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/uw-husky-football/trash-talk-wsu-coach-nick-rolovich-asked-if-husky-stadium-was-built-on-an-old-garbage-dump-heres-the-answer/

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